Don't you just love those kind? 🙂

We figured it out! When you select a path for the file by clicking the ellipsis it gives you a location. We are storing these in the root of the...

I just had one of th eSystem Admins who has complete control over the drive/directory and he got the same error when clicking ok. Any idea why this is happening?

I am using an account that has elevated permissions but I'm not able to verify that it has permissions on that folder because our RDP is down at the moment...

Actually the error is when I am using the Add Files functionality.

I right click the database and select properties.

I select 'Files' under the 'Select a page' pane on the properties...

I ran the shrink today on my gynormous SharePOint content database and it completed in about 4 minnutes. woot.

If I wanted to suspend the shrink operation that I initiated via...

Prolly not...when I look at the General Tab of properties of the DB I see 119.74Mb of Space Available

The individual ndf files have restricted growth to 102400 Mb and...

And indeed, after comparing screenshots of the mdf/ndf files from before and after there was some shrinkage. I went and ran dbcc shrinkdatabase again and specified 10% freespace. After it...

Thanks Gail. It completed. It took just under one hour using:

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE ( 5, NOTRUNCATE) . I used NOTRUNCATE to prevent the space from being released to the OS,...

I am working on a backup and not on the production db. The use of a hex editor was suggested as a way to determine if a classified document...

Well, quite some time has passed since I posed my initial questions and got such good feedback from folks. I was able to have a backup of the 800Gb...

That's greatnews! Thanks Lowell!

How anyone would be able to read the file is beyond me. The security here is uber restrictive. I think this is a case of making upper management 'feel' more...

Thanks Gila. I will definitely check into that. It is critical that the document be completely unreadable. We have already destroyed our tape backups and taken some other steps...

hi Chris,

Thanks for sending that query.

So the used space across 8 files adds up to 814151.4 Mb. The unused Space is at 52.13 Mb.

Given this situation if I try...